Fish stocks in our oceans are already depleted and could be in terminal decline due to the twin effects of climate change and overfishing. Scientists are warning of an emerging health crisis in poor countries in the vulnerable tropical zone. This multi-part investigation explores where we are...

This year, World Refugee Day comes in the midst of a growing crisis of displacement. IRIN has been covering events closely, not just in the Middle East and Europe but around the world. Here’s a collection of our best stories.

Some years ago global attention was focused on the spontaneous protests led by ordinary people in the Indian capital, New Delhi, after the gruesome gang-rape and murder of a physiotherapy student. But while the case seemed to spark global outrage, what has come of that shock and anger? What has really changed? IRIN explores how people are fighting back against the normalization of sexual violence.

After billions of dollars spent and countless lives lost, the war on drugs has been at best a misguided endeavor. IRIN explores the collateral damage wrought by global drug policy in developing countries.

Since a coup in March 2013, any semblance of law and order in the Central African Republic has vanished. The state has ceased to exist. As rebels-turned-bandits, mostly Muslim, battle Christian self-defence units, violence is spiraling out of control. Hundreds of thousands of people have fled their homes. As world powers finally begin to intervene, IRIN presents a detailed, analytical picture of events in a country on the brink of catastrophe.

On 2 April 2012, Islamist militants, including some self-styled jihadists, overran the ancient desert city of Timbuktu, in northern Mali. They installed a brutal and alien form of Sharia law, which remained in effect until a French intervention force put them to flight nine months later. This series looks at life under (and after) Islamic rule through several inhabitants of Timbuktu.